The document discusses the environmental crisis facing the world and calls for urgent action to address it. It notes that the global economy has grown rapidly but this growth is destroying the natural support systems of the environment. Resources like aquifers, fisheries and forests are declining rapidly. The atmosphere is changing as temperatures and CO2 levels rise, threatening food security. Urgent action is needed to restore natural systems, stabilize the climate through reducing emissions, and shift to renewable energy to avoid potential civilizational collapse.

1. World Environment Day
Promising Future

2. The global economy has
grown nearly 10-fold
with more 3% annual
growth rate

3. Promising Bright Economic Future…?

4. Or it is extrapolation of Illustrious
economic past into a promising future

6. Environmental Crisis is all time high

7. Economy is destroying its natural
support system

8. Economy is destroying its natural supportsIn fact we are running up against

9. WE HAVE CROSSED THE LIMITS

10. Aquifers are drying FAST

11. Fisheries are dying

12. Forest Reserves are depleting

13. Earth has 422 trees per person
but that's still 46% less

14. Atmosphere is CHANGING

15. Our Collective Demand

16. Overshooting

17. What Nature can provide

18. How can we assume
that the growth of an
economic system that
is destroying its
environmental
supports can simply be
projected into the
Long-term future?

19. Things are gathering Storm

20. threatening

21. Civilization

22. POLITICAL
We have to learn to sense the INDICATORS

23. OR WATCH

24. 2010 extreme heat wave in Russia

25. 2010 record floods in Pakistan

26. 2015 Floods in KASHMIR

27. Tsunami & Katrina

28. Earth Quake in Nepal

29. Kedarnath Floods

30. How close we are to the EDGE OUR CIVILIZATION?

31. Precariously CLOSE

32. World population is
INCREASING by 80 MILLION
annually

33. Population Pressures
continues…

34. Industrialization Pressure

35. Deforestation

36. OVER PUMPING of ACQUFIERS

37. Eroding Soils
Expanding DESERTS

38. Causing EXTREME WEATHER events

39. Threatening the HARVEST

40. Growth in Crop Yields is Slowing
•Growth in Crop Yields Slowing

41. Impact

42. AverageGlobal TemperatureandAtmosphericCarbon
DioxideConcentrations(1880-2010)
13.4
13.6
13.8
14.0
14.2
14.4
14.6
14.8
1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000
Source: NASA GISS; NOAA ESRL; Worldwatch
Temperature(degreesCelsius)
260
280
300
320
340
360
380
400
AtmosphericCO2(ppm)
Temperature
CO2
Earth Policy Institute - www.earth-policy.org

43. For every 1°Crise in temperature above
the optimum level during the growing
season

44. Yields of wheat, rice, and corn drop by
10 % (percent)

45. Climate change threatens food security and
could eventually create hundreds of millions
of climate refugees.

46. Time to Think

47. No one knows for sure when it will be too
late to address the trends of decline in
Natural Resources to avoid collapse

48. Business as usual is NOT working.

49. How to GO about it?

50. Wait for things to happen & then REACT!
Choices we have REACTIVE

51. BE REACTIVE

52. Precautionary measures to avoid the situation
Choices we have

53. BE PRO-ACTIVE

54. Visualizing the plausible future and act
accordingly
Choices we have

55. BE PREEMPTIVE

56. HOW to RESTORE EARTH’s
NATURAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS?

57. How to STABALIZE CLIMATE?

58. RESTORE EARTH’s NATURAL
SUPPORT SYSTEMS

59. Plant MORE Trees

60. Protect Topsoil on cropland

61. Restore Rangelands

62. Stabilize Water Levels
Harvest & Conserve

63. How to STABALIZE CLIMATE?

64. Reduce CO2 Emissions
Less Use of Fuel Emitting Machines

65. Energy efficient Transportation System
MAJOR AREA OF CONCERN

66. We must think for Alternative
Renewable Sources of Energy

67. Use of Energy Efficient Appliances
Consume LESS

68. Walk MORE & MORE

69. Pedal MORE & MORE

70. Above all

72. Mind Set

73. “What is ESSENTIAL is NOT
always visible to the eye”?

74. We need to ramp our
RENEUABLES

75. Wind

76. Solar

77. Geothermall

78. NO Fossil Fuel

79. World Electricity Generation by Source in 2008 and in
the Economy of 2020 – MAJOR SHIFT

80. Adopt less-intensive farming and land
management practices

81. Hit HARD

82. Tax people for what they burn
not what they earn

83. Raise Tax on Carbon Emission

84. Go For Energy Consumption Taxes

85. Introspection

86. Preventing environmental and economic collapse
requires political action from all of us in order to
effect broad social change

87. Be the generation that changes
direction, moving the world onto a
path of sustained progress?

88. The choice is ours. It will be made
by our generation, but it will
affect life on earth for all
generations to come

89. Plant a tree

90. Thank You